Rebels, Rebels

Rebels, Rebels

Anne’s post mentioning Harry Lewis and his comment about rebelling reminds me of a comment Harvard law prof Duncan Kennedy made several years ago, with respect to how recent law-school grads should behave on the job: “Young associates should think of it as a requirement of moral hygiene that they defy the people they work for, and do it at regular intervals.” This statement caused quite a sensation at the time, as alumni asked why they should hire people trained in the art of corporate sabotage by such eminences as Kennedy.

John J. Miller
—
John J. Miller is the national correspondent for National Review and the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. His new book is Reading Around: Journalism on Authors, Artists, and Ideas.
@heymiller

Recommended Articles

Most Popular

In response to the emerging evidence that Donald Trump directed and participated in the commission of federal crimes, all too many Republicans are wrongly comforting themselves with political deflection and strained legal argument. The political deflection is clear, though a bit bizarre. The recent wave of news ...
Read More

Better late than never (I hope), my weekend column has posted on the website. It deals with the question whether General Michael Flynn actually lied to the FBI agents — including the now infamous Peter Strzok — when they interviewed him in the White House on his third day on the job as national security ...
Read More

At the outset, let’s get two things straight:
First, there is something deeply disturbing about the Obama administration’s decision to open a counterintelligence investigation on retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn while he was working on the Trump campaign — and, ultimately, about the Justice ...
Read More

Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen's lawyer-turned-adviser, vigorously denied the allegation that his former client traveled to Prague during the 2016 election to arrange a payment for Russian hackers intervening in the election on then-candidate Trump's behalf.
The allegation that Cohen traveled to Prague is a key ...
Read More

Following senseless shootings in Toronto and Fredericton this past summer, talk of a national ban on handguns and “assault weapons” has reached a fever pitch in Canada. Under orders from Prime Minister Trudeau, Canadian border-security minister Bill Blair has chaired a series of closed-door consultations to ...
Read More

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump was asked on many occasions whether he would “accept the results” of the election if he were to lose. Democrats and their media allies demanded that he make a solemn vow to “accept the results.” It was never entirely clear what anybody thought ...
Read More